From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:38:03 +0900 Message-ID: <874oqrnz44.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <833a6bv30o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253870895 810 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 09:28:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 11:28:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr760-0005Ge-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr75z-0007sk-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr75r-0007r6-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr75m-0007kW-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56111 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr75m-0007kD-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:59565) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr75j-00067b-EZ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3E21535AC; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:27:41 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 797981A2808; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:38:03 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <833a6bv30o.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 02b7c7189041+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115608 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > There are no ``raw bytes'' in a unibyte buffer. Every byte there is > interpreted as a character, and shown as such. This is the main > feature of unibyte buffers; otherwise, who'd want them? Somebody working with a wire protocol who wants to avoid the overhead of a multibyte representation and the fragility of writing code to use Mule coding systems to implement the identity?